14-483: CCTB may stand for: Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau , an organization which promotes conventions and tourism in Chicago Canada Child Tax Benefit , a tax-free payment available to some Canadian families Common Consolidated Tax Base, one of several Next_Generation_EU#Additional_sources_of_revenue Central Compilation and Translation Bureau ,
28-611: A consortium of museums in or near the University of Chicago , formed Museum Campus South. Also in 2014, filmmaker George Lucas selected Museum Campus as the location of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art , which would have cost an estimated $ 700 million, and expanded Museum Campus south along the city's waterfront. However, these plans were canceled in June 2016 due to opposition from the Friends of
42-422: A now defunct party formed to research and translate Marxist works. Close Combat Testbed, one of the former names for the historical U.S. Army training program known as Mounted Warfare TestBed Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title CCTB . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
56-918: Is in Lansing, Illinois. Museum Campus Chicago Museum Campus is a 57-acre (23 ha) park in Chicago along Lake Michigan . It encompasses five of the city's major attractions: the Adler Planetarium , America's first planetarium; the Shedd Aquarium ; the Field Museum of Natural History ; Soldier Field , home of the Chicago Bears of the National Football League ; and the Lakeside Center of McCormick Place . Spanning from Roosevelt Road in
70-539: The Harris Theater for Music and Dance and the Chicago Opera Theater . Navy Pier , east of Streeterville , contains retail, restaurants, museums, exhibition halls and auditoriums. Its 15-story Ferris wheel is among the most visited landmarks with about 8 million visitors each year. The city's Museum Campus , holds: the Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum , the Field Museum of Natural History , and
84-644: The Shedd Aquarium . The Museum Campus accesses the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park . The Museum of Science and Industry is also a leading attraction. About one-third of Chicago's tourists enjoy the city's entertainment venues including McCormick Place and the Chicago Theatre . Choose Chicago is the official tourism organization for the city. In January 2012, Mayor Emanuel launched Chicago's new tourism organization, Choose Chicago. The Mayor's vision
98-466: The city's Visitor Information Center. Tourists will find sites of interest in Grant Park which contains Millennium Park , Buckingham Fountain (1927), and the Art Institute of Chicago . Millennium Park's Cloud Gate sculpture and fountain's two towers incorporate LED facial images. Events such as the Grant Park Music Festival take place in the city. Chicago performing arts venues include
112-495: The drive itself is lined with a number of grand bronze monuments: a 1904 sculpture designed by Kazimierz Chodziński commemorating Thaddeus Kościuszko , relocated from Humboldt Park in 1978; a 1911 monument to Karel Havlíček Borovský relocated from Douglass Park in 1983; and a 1973 replica of a famous 19th-century statue in Warsaw , designed by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , depicting Nicholas Copernicus . In 2014,
126-647: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=CCTB&oldid=1108374628 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau Tourism in Chicago draws on the city's architecture , museums , restaurants, sports , parks and beaches , theater and wide variety of neighborhood attractions. In 2017, Millennium Park alone saw 25 million visitors, making it
140-536: The north to the terminus of the Stevenson Expressway at Lake Shore Drive in the south, the Museum Campus consists of the southeastern portion of Grant Park , the entirety of Northerly Island , and the northern portion of Burnham Park . The Museum Campus opened on June 4, 1998, after the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive had been moved west of Soldier Field in 1996, freeing up 36 acres of land. It
154-621: The top tourist destination in the Midwest and among the top ten in the United States . In 2023, Chicago saw 51.96 million tourist arrivals, and tourism expenditure set a new record at $ 19.2 billion. Of these, 1.83 million were international visitors. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic , tourist arrivals had peaked at 61.58 million people in 2019. Major conventions are held at McCormick Place . The historic Chicago Cultural Center (1897) serves as
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#1732851554152168-422: Was created to transform the vicinity of three of the city's most notable museums – the Adler Planetarium , the Shedd Aquarium , and the Field Museum of Natural History – into a scenic pedestrian-friendly area. The area is landscaped with greenery and flora as well as jogging paths and walkways. A picturesque promenade along Solidarity Drive, an isthmus , links Northerly Island to the mainland. The median of
182-590: Was founded in 1970 with the merger of the Chicago Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Tourism Council of Greater Chicago. The Chicago North Shore Convention and Visitor's Bureau serves Evanston, Glenview, Northbrook and Skokie. The offices of the CNSCVB are located in downtown Skokie, Illinois. The Chicago Southland Convention & Visitors Bureau serves the 62 south and southwest suburbs of Chicago. Their office
196-781: Was to restructure all tourism sales and marketing activities under a single, streamlined agency, and outline clear and measurable objectives to track these efforts. Choose Chicago partners with the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority , the Chicago Office of Tourism, the City of Chicago, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity 's Bureau of Tourism, as well as many other related associations in Chicago. It handles convention sales for McCormick Place and Navy Pier . The former Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau
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